The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-12-24

A PITTSBURGH dentist has been sued for
100000 damages for ''negligencc in pull
ing tooth"
FoR the first time in their lives President
Cleveland and Rev. DIR. Burchard met
lew days ago.
THERE has been a number of needed
changes in the furnishings Of the White
House recently.
PRESIDENT CARNoT of France is in favor
Of bicycles being used by postmen and
public messengers.
A WESTERN ranchman will use tho barb
wire fence that surrounds his vast estate
US a telephone line.
MICHIGAN is entirely free from State
debt and has a surplus of sS74,7sS derived
from direct taxation.
JAS. JUDGE, of Kenosha, Wis, although
plumbers in the town.
AT the present time in England, John L.
Sullivan seems to be as important a person
as the Prince of Wales.
QUEEN CHRISTINE, of Spain, is said to
have voice which would have earned her
fame as prima-donna.
THERE are nine natives of Ireland, seven
SCOTS and two Norwogians in the present
mousse OIL representatives.
RUSSIA is preparing for the settlement of
the Bulgarian troubles in the spring, and
expects Austria to respond.
RECORDER SMYTH of Philadelphia, has
sentenced man to five years. imprison-
ment for stealing an umbrella.
KEoKUK has glass Gator. He is a small
boy, and on a wager ate half lamp Chin
ncy, and it didn't disagree with him.
GERMAN army: Number of troops, 42S,
1O4; cost, els, $50, 600 British army: Num-
ber of troops, l9S, 900; cost, f1S,"32,O ,O0O
THE dense forests of West Virginia are
rapidly disappearing, and soon the streams
will be shrinking in volume and number.
THERE is a movement among physicians
throughout the country to raise funds to
erect monument to DR.. Benjamin Rush.
THERE is at last hopeful prospect for q
satisfactory solution of the Indian problem.
The savages are acquiring the cigarette
habit.
ScorcH potatoes, with some consign-
nents of the same vegetable from Ireland,
are being imported in considerable guam
titles.
THE proprietors of tho Monte Carlo
gambling resorts report the annual list of
suicides in their yearly statement of divi-
dends.
BERLIN has Technical High School,
built by that city at cost of 81, 800, ,000,
and maintained at an annual cost of
S190,OO0
A CONTEST over the will of ex-Vice Pres.
ident Wheeler is about to begin. The es.
tate amounts to $4,000, and there are fifty
contestants.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD takes exercise at
the age of eighty-two years, by walking
eight miles every day and riding horseback
for an hour besides.
The Russian government is in such pres
sing straights for money that it will be
compelled to accept the stringent terms
offered by the French bankers.
A PHILADELPHIA hunter went over into
New Jersey rabbit shooting; got one cot
ton-tail, and was arrested for cunning
without license and fined $50.
Two bright New Jersey young women,
dissatisfied with the money they made
teaching, invested $50 in poultry The first
year their profits were $1,000, the second,
$1,000.
SAMUEL SPENCER has been elected to sue
seed Robert Garrett as president of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The new
president will receive salary of S25, 900
per annum.
MINISTERS are SO scarce in Idaho that
they have to he imported in many cases
where people wish to get married. Trains
are stopped that they might be searched
for ministers.
The longest street railway in the coun-
try is now in operation between Elizabeth
aud Newark, N. j., the round trip being
,t,t,,
twenty cents.
AN Oil City paper suggests that natural
gas be called petrogcn. Prof, Orton, Of
Ohio, admits that new name is desira-
BILE, but thinks petrema would be o more
scientific term.
FARMERS in Wiltshire, Eng, have been
obliged by hard times to reduce the wages
OF their iaborers from one to two shillings q
week, so that now eight shillings a week
is the usual wage.
BISMARCK is the busiest man In Ger
many. He remains at his desk nightly till
two O'Clock, and even during his "vaca-
ton" in Kissengen attended to his affairs
until long after midnight.
DUBUQUE, Ia., has man who asserts
that he is the devil, and there are some
who are inclined to believe him; but, as
he has no horns and no tail, the police
have locked him up as an impostor.
From the report of the Secretary of Wa
II appears that the expenditures OF the dc.
partments for the fiscal year ending June
30 were s5l, ,3S6, 165. The estimates for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1889 amount to
% 337, 900.
AND now electricity is to be added to the
defensive features OF the barbed wire
fence. Electricity Is the only thing pos
sessing the power to make the barbed-
wire fence more shocking affair than it is
ct present.
An effort will be made during this ses.
sion OF Congress to reduce letter postage.
IL the exigencies OF the service will not
yet permit the reduction OF the two-cent
rate To one cent, 1t will be the aim OF the
yeductiouists to at least have drop-letters
cent for one cent.
The servant girl question is not so much
Of problem in Germany as it is in this
country. The very pretty custom prevails
there OF decorating household servants for
long and satisfactory service. One ''unionn
has within twelve years decorated four
hundred servants. Something Of similar
nature is done In England.
Az Anarchist at Minneapolis has been
llEIed y 2 conn with red trimpingx